Guide for index-cards.



C. C. SMITH.

GUIDE FOR INDEX CARDS. APPLICATION FILED APR- 1. 1915.

Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

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GUIDE FOR INDEX-CARDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

" Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

Application filed April 7, 1915. Serial No. 19,712. a

My invention relates to metallic guides to.

be clipped to index cards. Guides of the indicated character includeclamp jaws to attach the uide to the card, and jaws at the opposite e geto hold a label.

A prime object of my invention is to provide an improved guide havingjaws for receiving a label, the jaws being so formed asto present aninterior space to accommodate a label, and front longitudinal edges inclose relation retaining the label at the front thereof, the jawsfurthermore presenting end edges in close relation to prevent displacement of the label at the ends of the guide.

A further object of my invention is to make provision for, the entranceof the label with facility, the arrangement being such that the labelmay be readily entered and will be effectively prevented from accidentaldisplacement.

A further object of the invention is to provide a guide having provisionfor facilitating the removal of the label when desired.

The arrangement also has for its object to provide a guide of theindicated character, composed of resilient side platesso formed andunited as to facilitate the manufacture, and provide eflicient clampjaws to engage the ticket and receive the label.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specificdescriptionfollowing.

Reference is bad to the accompanying drawings forming part of thisspecification, in which similar characters of reference dicatecorresponding parts in all the Views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a front view of my improved guide showing the same appliedto an index card, illustrated in part, and carrying a label;

2 is a vertical transverse section on an enlarged scale on the line 2-2,Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a front view of the guide on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 4 is a front edge view; Fig. 5 is an end view;

Fig. 6 is an end view of the two plates from which the guide is formed,.the view showing the plates before compressing and unitlng the same;

Fig. 7 is a front view similarto Fig. 1,

but indicating the manner of inserting the label Fig. 8 is a Viewsimilar to Fig. 7 showing the manner of removing the label; and

Fig. 9 is a front view showing a slight modification.

In carrying out my invention in practice, in accordance with theillustrated example, two similar resilient plates 10 are provided whichare initially of general dished form vertically, the plates eachpresenting a depression between the opposite longitudinal edges, asshown in Fig. 6. The plates near one edge comprise longitudinal membersto constitute clamp jaws 11 for clamping the guide on a card A the jawsmeeting along the longitudinal edges 12. At the opposite edges theplates 10 are formed to constitute jaws 13 for detachably holding alabel B, bearing any suitable name or indicia, such as Washington, D.(3., the said jaws 13 meeting at the longitudinal edges 14.

The plates 10, in forming the guide, are placed back to back as in Fig.6, with the longitudinal edges 12 and 14 in contact; the plates are thenplaced under pressure to compress them laterally against their resiliandthe zone 15 will limit the entrance of a card A and the label B. Thelabel will be displayed through oblong openings 13 formed in the jaws13.

Various means have been proposed, and different ways have been employedin practice to retain the label and to permit its removal. In myimproved guide the jaws 13 at the end edges are swaged toward each otheras at 17 from points adjacent to the compressed and united zone 15outwardly, the swaged edges 17 terminatlng, however, short of the frontedges 14. There 'will thus be presented at the outer terminals of theswaged. members 17, openings 18 at the ends of the'front edges 14, saidopenings communicating with the interior space provided the j awsto'permit the label B to enter and be accommodated between the jaws. Thefront edges 14,;when the jaws close, will prevent escape of the label atthe front,

while the swaged edges: 17 willprevent displacement at the ends.

In order to provide for readily removing a label B or'changing' the sameif desired, I provide notches 19 in the jaws 13, one notch beingsufiicient in each jaw; these notches are located atthe inner sides ofthe openings 13 and permit the entrance of a pin or pencil, asconventionally indicated at C in Fig. 8 beneath the inner edge of thelabel, whereby to force said label outwardly through the front edges 14.V

In the form shown in Fig. 9, the guide is; formed from plates 10essentially the same as' described, having jaws 11 with meeting edges'12 and jaws 13 with meeting edges 14?, together with openings 13 todisplay the label and notches 19 corresponding with the notches 19. Inthe modified form a similar effect is produced by swaging the endedges'17 nearer to the front edges, but in this formalso the swagededges 17' terminate short of the front edges 14:", so that endopeningswill be presented at the ends of the front edges as at 18 to serve thedescribed purpose of the openings 18.

By thus forming the sides from two separate resilient plates, shaped asdescribed, and compressed and united along the intermediate zone, a veryeflicient guide is cheaply and quickly produced, having great strengthand durability, and affording facility for the entrance. and removal ofthe label as well as insuring that the label will be unfailingly"retained against accidental displacement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A label holder, comprising a pair of dished jaws adapted to receive acard so as to lie wholly between the jaws, said jaws having oblongopenings in their sides and having their end edges in contact for thegreater portion of their length, the remaining outer portions of saidedges being spaced apart forming openings, whereby provision is made forfacilitating the insertion of a card between the jaws and for preventingan inserted card from displacement at the ends of the jaws when the saidjaws are closed.

2. A guide for index cards, formed of resilient side plates having clampjaws at one edge to receive a card and clamp jaws at the opposite edgeto receive a label, said latter jaws yieldingly meeting along the frontand swaged along the side edges from points short of the front edges,the label holding jaws furthermore presenting an interior space toaccommodate a label within said front and side edges and presenting endopenings communicating with the said in-. terior space adjacent to thefront edges for entering a label between the jaws.

3. A label holder comprising two pairs of oppositely projecting jaws,one pair serving to secure the holder to a card and the other pair tohold a label wholly 'within the.

jaws, the last named jaws having oblong openings in their sides andnotches in the bottom walls of said openings, the said jaws having theouter portions of their end edges spaced apart and the inner portions incontact.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES C. SMITH. I Witnesses:

C. M. LAwLnn, B. ALEXANDER.

